Yamanaka Inspiration and Teamwork
I met some of my old pals and colleagues at the Angiogenesis Meeting this March in Chennai, India, and several topics came up one evening as we sat in a restaurant overlooking the Bay of Bengal. One was the recent financial crunch, especially the research fund cuts all over the world. Our discussion prompted one of my colleagues to suggest we do something like Dr. Yamanaka did: run a marathon to raise funds for research. That thought revived our interest in music, and a song I had composed a long time ago came back up. We named ourselves Angre & Nut – “An” from the angiogenesis meeting, and “Gre & Nut” from the first and last three letters of the resort Green Coconut in which the meeting was held. Read more